Bloody hell! Another Hindi release with the national anthem playing not once but thrice. If this is the frequency at which Rabindranath Tagore’s creation would be played in a Hindi film, Tagore’s kin should contemplate seeking royalties of some sort. How about donations to Shantiniketan?

From the conflict in Kashmir, Vishal Bhardwaj gives Bard a break to look at love in times of Indian freedom struggle. It’s 1943 and the shayari and classical music-loving British major general David Harding (Richard Mccabe) wants Parsi movie producer Russi Billimoria (Saif Ali Khan) to send his studio’s popular action heroine Julia (Kangana Ranaut) to the Indo-Burma border to entertain and motivate the Indian soldiers who are fighting against both the Japanese forces as well as their own countrymen in members of Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army.